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Translation of writings on the reverse.
(This) Farman has been granted and signed by His Majesty, the Mustan-
fis (Royal Accountants) and the Customs administration should carefully
peruse the Farman and debit the 12,000 tomans being the salary of His Excel
lency the Mu’izz-es-Saltaneh, against the Customs revenues. The Royal Far
man has now been issued.
(L. S.) Mushir-ud-Dauleh.
Seen and registered.
(L. S.) Ttimad-ud-Daftar.
Seen.
(L. S.)
Mu’izz-es-Saltaneh.
Seen.
Seen.
Seen.
(L. S.)
Yemin-ul-Mulk.
Seen.
(L. S.)
Muhammad Nuri.
The sum of 12,000 tomans has been granted and fixed as a salary accord
ing to this obligatory Farman, for His Excellency the Mu’izz-es-Sultaneh,
Amir Tuman, Sardar Arfa’ out of the original Customs revenue.
A Bill will be issued every year from this year, Bars-eel and hereafter by
the Customs officer on account of the abovementioned sum.
Rahi ai-Sani, 1320.
Seen.
(L. S.) A’zam-el-Mulk.
Registered and seen by His Excellency the Wazir-ud-Daftar.
(L. S.) Wazir-ud-Daftar.
Seen.
Seen.
Seen.
This Farman has been registered.
Seen.
(L. S.) Ghulam Hussain bin Muhammad.
APPENDIX XII.
Agreement entered into between the Sardar Arfa’, Amir Nuyan, Shaikh
Khaz’al Khan ibn Haji Jabir Khan, heirs and successors, and his tribesmen,
on the one part, hereinafter called “ the Shaikh ” and Messrs. Anglo-Persian
Oil Co., Limited, of London, on the other part, hereinafter called “ the Com
pany,” in respect of lands required by the said Company in the territories of
the former, for the purpose of their business, under the exclusive privileges of
the concession granted to Mr. W. K. D’Arcy by His Majesty the Shah of
Persia on the 28th May 1901.
Whereby it is agreed that:—
1. The Shaikh undertakes to hire to the said Company an area free of
date trees of 650 (six hundred and fifty) jaribs of 4,669 square yards per jarib,
on ’Abbadan Island, situated between the village of Braim on the north-west
and Bawairdeh on the south-east, having a frontage of about 2,000 yards on
the Shatt-al-’Arab, and also a strip of land not less than thirty yards in
breadth for a right of way connecting the land abovementioned with the
Bahmanshir River : but the public rights of way must remain.
2. Should the said Company find the ground selected as above, after
further examination, not suitable for the requirements, they should have the
right to select other sites of the same area and same description. Should the
Company require more land, free of date trees, adjacent to the lands leased to
them, the Shaikh undertakes, in case the Company asks for such land within
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